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<p><em>We&rsquo;re back from last week&rsquo;s foray into the <a href="http://www.mgoblog.com/content/ultimate-ennui-showdown">Pit of Despair</a>. Unfortunately for you, I&rsquo;m on vacation next week, so you&rsquo;ll get Round Two of the search for the height of ennui. And I think it will be harder to stomach than the first bunch. Armanti Edwards will feature prominently, as will Rich Rodriguez. Just remember: this will hurt me more than it will hurt you. In the meantime, as usual if you come across any social media happenings worth noting, send them to </em><a href="http://www.twitter.com/bry_mac"><em>@Bry_Mac</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<font>Michigan rules the Twitterverse</font></h4>
<p>A Michigan Man remains connected to his community. <a href="http://au.businessinsider.com/chart-university-of-michigan-dominates-college-sports-social-media-2013-7">Very connected</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/MichiganFootball_2.jpg"><img alt="MichiganFootball" border="0" height="342" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/MichiganFootball_thumb.jpg" title="MichiganFootball" width="454" /></a></p>
<p align="center">(<em>via Business Insider</em>)</p>
<p>Michigan football <a href="http://www.twitter.com/umichfootball">(@umichfootball</a>) is the most followed official team account in college athletics. Michigan basketball (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/umichbball">@umichbball</a>) is the fifth most followed official team account in college athletics. Between the two accounts, they have, uh&hellip; math&hellip; a lot of followers. Like thousands. So bravo to Michigan&rsquo;s digital media folks. I award you one (1) Internet.&nbsp; Michigan State&rsquo;s football and basketball accounts are next in the B1G at #13 and #15, respectively. I guess the rest of the conference really needs to get its crap together. /Urban&rsquo;d</p>
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Reporters suspect college student may have gotten drunk and slept in one time</h4>
<p>Johnny Manziel was in the news this week when he was reportedly sent home from the Many Manning Men Passing Camp for showing up late and hung over. The whole topic has been done to death, so I don&#39;t really want to talk about it, but there is one reaction worth noting. Mark May has had enough of Johnny Football&#39;s disgraceful actions, and isn&#39;t afraid to say so.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Alright Johnny Football enough is enough this is your last wake up call STOP BRINGING SHAME TO THE GAME !</p>
<p> &mdash; Mark May (@mark_may) <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_may/statuses/356962392879529984">July 16, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>You may think &quot;SHAME TO THE GAME&quot; is a little harsh, but you&#39;ve gotta respect a guy who won&#39;t tolerate people disregarding the social norms while purporting to represent the greater football community...</p>
<p>...<a href="http://www.goodbullhunting.com/2013/7/16/4527436/hypocrite-mark-may-arrested-pitt-johnny-manziel-twitter">anymore</a>.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/May1979_2.jpg"><img alt="May1979" border="0" height="351" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/May1979_thumb.jpg" title="May1979" width="354" /></a><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/MayDUI_2.jpg"><img alt="MayDUI" border="0" height="348" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/MayDUI_thumb.jpg" title="MayDUI" width="179" /></a></p>
<p align="center">(<em>H/T to A&amp;M&rsquo;s SB Nation site, <a href="http://www.goodbullhunting.com/">Good Bull Hunting</a>, on the find)</em></p>
<p>In case you missed the fun part of that, May was charged during his college days with, among other things, &quot;inciting to riot&quot; and &quot;terroristic threats.&quot; He apparently went on a Will Campbell hood-destroying escapade, except that BWC&#39;s shenanigans were cheeky and fun while May&#39;s shenanigans were, to use a technical legal term, &quot;light terrorism.&quot; Some people (read: all people) might think this makes Mark May look like a gigantic hypocrite when he gets all huffy when a college student shows up to something hung over. But May responded, pointing out that (a) only people who have DONE bad things can CRITIQUE bad things, and (b) f*** your punctuation and logic.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Thats why I can critique experience</p>
<p> &mdash; Mark May (@mark_may) <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_may/statuses/357180664363225088">July 16, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Hard to disagree with that kind of logic, because by the time you find the logic, it&rsquo;s next Tuesday and we&rsquo;ve moved on to other things. It&#39;s worth noting that he hasn&#39;t tweeted a single thing about Aaron Hernandez or Jeremy Hill, and I haven&#39;t seen him comment publicly about them. Murder* and battery** don&#39;t bring shame to the game. That distinction falls to being a self-indulgent, self-important immature prima donna and/or typical college student (again, not a debate worth having AGAIN), because lord knows football can&#39;t survive with one of THOSE in its ranks.</p>
<p>*Allegedly.</p>
<p>**Not allegedly. <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2013/07/lsu_running_back_jeremy_hill.html">He did that</a>. That&#39;s assault, brotha (but not really, but there&#39;s no applicable Adam Sandler quote for battery so we&#39;ll just pretend).</p>
<p><strong>[A jump, after which either sharks or Bacari Alexander will fall out of the sky.] </strong> </p>
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<font>HALOL again</font></h4>
<p>After a haitus of several months, one of the Athletic Department&rsquo;s most prolific&nbsp; tweeters rejoined the ranks last week.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We&#39;re back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I&#39;d like to give a personal shout out to <a href="https://twitter.com/shoot707">@shoot707</a> for spending time with us in Minnesota last year! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23goblue&amp;src=hash">#goblue</a></p>
<p> &mdash; Bacari Alexander (@bacari34) <a href="https://twitter.com/bacari34/statuses/354256799131639808">July 8, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>His stuff ranges from the informative</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Caris Levert has gotten stronger and Stands at 6&#39;6&quot; and some change. The biggest change is his confidence. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mygoodness&amp;src=hash">#mygoodness</a></p>
<p> &mdash; Bacari Alexander (@bacari34) <a href="https://twitter.com/bacari34/statuses/354262003587624960">July 8, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p><p>To the corny</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Last 3 years I showed up to football games with my shoelaces untied... This year I&#39;m bringing &quot;Gardening Tools&quot;... <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23wehaveagardnerthatilove&amp;src=hash">#wehaveagardnerthatilove</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Bacari Alexander (@bacari34) <a href="https://twitter.com/bacari34/statuses/354597549451124736">July 9, 2013</a></p>
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<p>To the&hellip; the this.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If you&#39;re in the 2014 class and possess a lot of talent and high character call <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBeilein">@JohnBeilein</a> at (734) 888- COMMIT <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nothenumberisntreal&amp;src=hash">#nothenumberisntreal</a></p>
<p> &mdash; Bacari Alexander (@bacari34) <a href="https://twitter.com/bacari34/statuses/354266319606136833">July 8, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Welcome back, coach.</p>
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<font>ESPNado </font></h4>
<p>Some of you missed the SyFy <strike>made-for-TV</strike> movie Sharknado last week [<em>ED: Per the comments below, it was apparently actually made for distrubution, which, yikes</em>], I can&rsquo;t really explain it. It was a terrible movie, but it garnered a huge buzz on Twitter. Like a geeky awkward guy trying to join a dance-off, ESPN tried to get in on the action. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/sharknados-nhl-team-bites-back-espn-suggestion-article-1.1397300">It backfired</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Sharknado.png"><img alt="Sharknado" border="0" height="244" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Sharknado_thumb.png" title="Sharknado" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>Stop trying to be at the cool table, ESPN. You&rsquo;re The Man now.</p>
<p>In somewhat related news, Awful Announcing did an interesting piece on the disconnect between <a href="http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/july/is-there-a-disconnect-between-twitter-and-reality.html">social media and society at large</a>. They point out that while Sharknado was huge on Twitter, its ratings were actually pretty mediocre, even for a SyFy movie. The gist:</p>
<blockquote><p>The truth is that as popular as the service is, Twitter represents a small portion of the actual population.&nbsp; The United States had an estimated <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/05/01/the-worlds-most-active-twitter-country-hint-its-citizens-cant-use-twitter/">22.9 million active users as of last year</a>.&nbsp; That&#39;s a mere 7.3% of the population that&#39;s active and engaged on Twitter.&nbsp; So while trending topics may be all the rage and so many television shows and sporting events look to incorporate Twitter into their broadcasts, keep in mind only a small section of the population is actually using the thing.&nbsp; For all the people tweeting about the awesome wonder of the Sharknado, there were another 7 people that were already watching The Big Bang Theory - they just weren&#39;t tweeting about it.</p>
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<p>They point out that Twitter is heavily dominated by the coveted &ldquo;18-29 year old urbanite&rdquo; demographic, so commercial interests might give more Twitter more sway than a typical 7.3% swath of the country. I also think you can&rsquo;t forget about the externalities of events like this; the first run ratings might have been poor, but I&rsquo;d bet this kind of buzz might earn them more eyeballs than usual on subsequent viewings. All things considered, social media isn&rsquo;t a bunch of dorks in their parents&rsquo; basements, and it isn&rsquo;t a perfect representative sample of American life. This should not be shocking news to anyone.</p>
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<font>Save the Endangered Tigers</font></h4>
<p>Missouri football had a tough year last year, and Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel is under some pressure.That&#39;ll happen when your team goes 2-6 in the SEC East, which, for those of you who don&#39;t know, is the decidedly less Alabama-y division of the SEC. So, fair or not, he&#39;s on the proverbial &quot;hot seat&quot; (maybe they&#39;re getting this SEC thing down afterall). But before anyone could create the coaching version of the Presidential Exploratory Committee (i.e. the &quot;Fire Gary Pinkel&quot; website), Pinkel beat them to the punch by creating <a href="http://www.garypinkel.com/">www.garypinkel.com</a>, presumably because <a href="http://www.pleasedontfiregarypinkelheseemslikeadecentdude.com/">www.PleaseDontFireGaryPinkelHeSeemsLikeADecentDude.com</a> was taken. They just posted some stuff from SEC media days, but for a while the only thing on a site was a video featuring a rousing endorsement from a former player, two ESPN anchors, a BTN anchor, and post-vision-quest Don Draper.</p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/g8q6BdeOOCc" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Hamm.png"><img alt="Hamm" border="0" height="252" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Hamm_thumb.png" title="Hamm" width="454" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><em>I&rsquo;ve seen some things, man. But yeah, Jerry Pinkett is great.</em></p>
<p>If nothing else, watch at 0:33 where Linda Cohn gives the kind of strong endorsement you&#39;d hear for the neighbor kid who mows your lawn every week and does an okay job:</p>
<blockquote><p>I think stabilty in coaching is very important. And there are so many, from year to year... there is forward progress. And the development of players is taking place at Mizzou. So I think... it&#39;s always easy as a fan - and that&#39;s why they call us fans, you know -&nbsp; to think it&#39;s, the grass is always greener somewhere else, that we should bring in this guy, and this program has this guy, and we get kind of full of ourselves thinking we&#39;re all that. There&#39;s something to be said for a stable force. And I think he&#39;s doing a fine job. Like I said, he&#39;s developing players and you guys are competitive.</p>
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<p>Somewhere Kirk Ferentz is having this made into a motivational poster for Iowa&#39;s football facilities.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Ferentz.png"><img alt="Ferentz" border="0" height="333" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Ferentz_thumb.png" title="Ferentz" width="504" /></a></p>
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<h4>
<font>Marshall Henderson vs. Erin Andrews</font></h4>
<p>There was a little disagreement between Erin Andrews and Marshall Henderson Twitter this week, which...</p>
<p><em><b>Erin Andrews</b></em></p>
<p>Wait... disembodied voice? What are you doing here? We haven&#39;t heard from you for months. And this isn&#39;t even your feature.</p>
<p><em><b>Don&#39;t care. Had to weigh in. Erin Andrews</b></em></p>
<p>But you haven&#39;t even heard the...</p>
<p><em><b>ERIN ANDREWS.</b></em></p>
<p>Yeah, well, for everyone else&#39;s sake, here&#39;s the story. Marshall Henderson was suspended indefinitely from Ole Miss. This was met by college basketball fans with emotions ranging from self-satisfied glee to... nope, that was pretty much it. Erin Andrews, a well-known Gator fan, tweeted her satisfaction at the karmic turn of events, and <a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/07/marshall-henderson-is-fighting-erin-andrews-on-twitter/">Henderson responded</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/AndrewsHenderson.png"><img alt="AndrewsHenderson" border="0" height="200" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/AndrewsHenderson_thumb.png" title="AndrewsHenderson" width="504" /></a></p>
<p>His response feels a little like Doctor Claw promising to get Inspector Gadget next time. Sounds menacing, but you know it won&#39;t actually happen. So&hellip;</p>
<p><em><b>Can we please just declare &quot;Erin Andrews&quot;</b> <b>and move on?</b></em></p>
<p>But Marshall Henderson made Bo Ryan sad. Surely that&#39;s worth something.</p>
<p><em><b>That&#39;s it. I&#39;m outta here. I&#39;ll be waiting in the Central Michigan UFR. Brian gets me.</b></em></p>
<p>/All by myself&hellip;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<strong>Your weekly Roy Manning</strong></h4>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Michigan Fans are everywhere. Even the forest. S/O to Smokey for reppin the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MaizeAndBlue&amp;src=hash">#MaizeAndBlue</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GoBlue&amp;src=hash">#GoBlue</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WolverineNation&amp;src=hash">#WolverineNation</a> <a href="http://t.co/YtzzhzeeVL">pic.twitter.com/YtzzhzeeVL</a></p>
<p> &mdash; Roy Manning (@CoachRoyM) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoachRoyM/statuses/353615459398066177">July 6, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Hey, Smokey... if you see Jon Hamm, let us know. We&#39;re getting a little concerned.</p>
http://mgoblog.com/content/week-twitterverse-19#commentsbacari alexandererin andrewsgary pinkelhaloljohnny manzielkirk ferentzmark maymarshall hendersonroy manningsharknadothis week in the twitterverseThu, 18 Jul 2013 11:32:25 +0000BiSB79889 at http://mgoblog.comThis Week in the Twitterverse: Anniversary Editionhttp://mgoblog.com/content/week-twitterverse-anniversary-edition
<p><em>This Week in the Twitterverse takes a look at the social media happenings of the previous week, or whatever else I feel like talking about. Mostly I make fun of people who are better at things than I am. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Consult your doctor if this column lasts more than four hours. If you come across anything you think should be in next week&#39;s column, send it to <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Bry_Mac">@Bry_Mac</a>.</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>As of today, I have been married to my lovely wife, Mrs. BiSB (also known as WiSB or J_Mac, but not really), for exactly four years. In that spirit, I thought I would share some of the lessons I have learned in those years, in hopes that my wisdom may save you from some of my missteps.</p>
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<font>Your stupidity is noticed, stupid.</font></h4>
<p>When you screw up (and you WILL screw up), you may not always get called on it. You ignored a request to <strike>refrain from peeing in the sink</strike>&nbsp; <strike>put some pants on, dammit, we have company</strike> do the dishes, or you come home from your &quot;quick drink after work&quot; at 2:00 a.m. with a concussion, wearing a loin cloth and reeking of ouzo, and your significant other lets it slide. &quot;I&#39;m a wizard,&quot; you think to yourself. &quot;I should rob banks. Or the Louvre.&quot; You see, you confused a patient and tolerant person with someone who didn&#39;t mind. Turns out, humans tend to notice and respond to stimuli. You are unknowingly making withdrawals from the First National Bank of Spousal Patience, and you never know when your balance will hit zero and crap will hit the fan. To wit:</p>
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<p>As we have discussed many times, people send stupid tweets to recruits all the time. The recruits usually don&#39;t respond, so the morons tweeting them probably assume either (a) no one notices or cares, or (b) they need to up their trolling game to break through the noise. Turns out, they are just making their respective schools look bad. Shai Mckenzie had a since-deleted back-and-forth with one such Pitt fan, and as a result he&rsquo;s not feeling the love. I don&rsquo;t know if he decided to cancel the visit (it was scheduled for today), but needless to say that if you were the fan who cost your team a 4-star running back, your day will not be good.</p>
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<font>Sometimes a little space is a good thing</font></h4>
<p>If you&#39;ve been in a relationship for a long time, you probably enjoy spending time together. Regardless, a little &quot;me time&quot; is a healthy thing for both of you. This is a marathon, not a sprint, and you don&#39;t need to share your every thought and every waking moment with your paramour. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Omnipresence <a href="https://twitter.com/romejt">makes you this dude</a>:</p>
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<p>Kentucky has jumped to the front of the Inappropriate Twitter Stalkers parade, and this guy is out front waving a Big Blue baton. As you can probably guess, those are all recruits (including Jamarco Jones, who is most decidedly not considering Kentucky anymore). It isn&#39;t even that he contacts recruits. It&#39;s how OFTEN he&#39;s contacting recruits. And what he&#39;s saying to them. And how it seems to be the SOLE REASON he has a Twitter account. And... Jeebus, read that feed. He&rsquo;s mentioned TJ Harrell nearly 50 times in the last two weeks alone. So, based on quantity, quality, use of exclamation points, and overall lack of self-awareness, I declare you, <strong>John Turner</strong>, to be the <strong>TWITTER CREEPER OF THE YEAR OF THE WEEK</strong>. This is only the second time I have given this award, so cherish it, BBN hero.</p>
<p><strong><em>[After the jump, your friends may be on your side, but that doesn&#39;t mean they&#39;re &quot;helping&quot;]</em></strong> </p>
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<p><strong>YFMBOYSBTDMTH:</strong></p>
<p>We men get ourselves in enough trouble, so the last thing we need is a group of instigators around us encouraging us to make things worse. Often this will take the form of &ldquo;you should rekindle that fight you just had, because YOU were right,&rdquo; or &ldquo;you should do that thing she asked you not to do, because you&rsquo;re a free man and this is America.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Likewise, you may say to yourself, &ldquo;I know it&rsquo;s wrong to tweet kids because BiSB told me so,&rdquo; and you&rsquo;ll look to you your team&rsquo;s coaches for confirmation. But instead some coach is all &ldquo;that&rsquo;s cool, rules are for suckers because <a href="http://coachingsearch.com/home/3529-kentucky-assistant-says-the-big-blue-nation-is-affecting-recruiting.html">ESS EEE SEE WOOOOOO</a>&rdquo; (relevant bit at 2:45):</p>
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<blockquote><p>You can&#39;t imagine when you&#39;re recruiting a kid out of high school and his twitter account jumps a thousand people in two hours because the fans found out who he was. It is overwhelming to me and it really brings a new excitement that I didn&#39;t know we had to myself because I know what it&#39;s doing for recruiting.&nbsp; We can only do so much.&nbsp; When they feel the Big Blue Nation out there doing that...&nbsp; I can&#39;t tell you how many letters I write, how many phone calls I make, or how hard I work, <strong>the fans can pour so much into it that we can&#39;t do.&nbsp; It&#39;s awesome to see</strong>.</p>
<p>~ <em>Tommy Mainord; WR coach, Kentucky</em></p>
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<p>Twitter heroes like TCOTYOTW Award-winner John Turner may well be a permanent fixture on the &lsquo;crootin landscape for the forseeable future, but I think we all assumed that most coaches viewed these guys as an annoyance at best and a dangerous hindrance at worst. And even if coaches thought this kind of crap was helpful, they would keep it to themselves and allow the thing to unfold while they feigned a shred of dignity. But no, this is an actual coach at a BCS school who is actively encouraging fans to break NCAA rules in a creep-tastic manner. And he&rsquo;s doing so IN A UNIVERSITY-PRODUCED VIDEO. Go home, Kentucky. You&rsquo;re drunk. And no drunk tweeting when you get home.&nbsp;YFMBOYSBTDMTH.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Kentucky did <a href="http://www.sports-forum.com/news/current/?article_id=589&amp;inf_contact_key=82545ca3a814c282efdb6505c1e341bdf4c4e55a27fc8d42bcb0ac565ee62ffe">invent the idea of using &quot;hashtags&quot;</a>, so I guess they can get... no. They get nothing. They lose. Good day sir.</p>
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<font>Keep everything in perspective</font></h4>
<p>It&rsquo;s easy in a relationship to lose sight of the big picture. You lose the forest through the trees, and sometimes you have to take a step back and look at what really matters.</p>
<p>As an analogy, imagine someone was accused of a vicious premeditated murder. Now, most people would focus on the human tragedy this represents. But other people (mostly those who have completely lost any sense of a social compass) might focus on how that event might affect that person&rsquo;s sponsors:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Rovell.png"><img alt="Rovell" border="0" height="180" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Rovell_thumb.png" title="Rovell" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>Process that for a second. Hernandez was charged with murder today, and PUMA HAD NO COMMENT.* One guy is dead. Another has thrown his life away. An 8-month-old child will probably grow up without a father present. And you&rsquo;re going with the impact on... Puma. Interesting tack.</p>
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<p>I think George Diaz of the Orlando Sentinel said it well when he <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/blogs/en-fuego/os-gd-tim-tebow-aaron-hernandez-arrest-20130626,0,6712012.post">predicted</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The tragedy of Odin&#39;s death and the impact on his family will become a secondary story for talking heads in our celebrity-obsessed culture</p>
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<p>And sure enough, Mr. Diaz was soon proven correct by&hellip; <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/blogs/en-fuego/os-gd-tim-tebow-aaron-hernandez-arrest-20130626,0,6712012.post">George Diaz of the Orlando Sentinel</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>As folks like to say, when one door closes, another opens up.</p>
<p>In this case, it&rsquo;s the clink&nbsp; of the cellblock closing in on Aaron Hernandez, and the heavens parting for Tim Tebow.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Those quotes are from the same article. I can&rsquo;t make my brain close that gap. Then again, at least Diaz seems to understand the implications of murder charges, unlike some people:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/McNabb.png"><img alt="McNabb" border="0" height="175" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/McNabb_thumb.png" title="McNabb" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>I&rsquo;m going to go out on a limb, Donovan, and predict that yes, there is a pretty good chance that if convicted, this could really take a bite out of Hernandez&rsquo;s most productive NFL years (those being &ldquo;the years where he is alive&rdquo;).</p>
<p><em>*NOTE: if the &ldquo;no comment&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t come from a shoe company, but rather from an actual puma, then that <u>would</u> be noteworthy. It would also be smart, because if you are a carnivorous jungle cat, you&rsquo;re probably going to want to invoke your Fifth Amendment rights, because you WILL be a suspect.</em></p>
<h4>
<font>Marry up</font></h4>
<p align="center"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Wedding.png"><img alt="Wedding" border="0" height="244" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Wedding_thumb.png" title="Wedding" width="224" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><em>One of these people is attractive. One writes a stupid column.</em></p>
<h4>
<font>[BONUS: marriage advice for women </font></h4>
<p>Don&rsquo;t marry this guy.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Henderson.png"><img alt="Henderson" border="0" height="236" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Henderson_thumb.png" title="Henderson" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>Obvious advice is obvious.]</p>
http://mgoblog.com/content/week-twitterverse-anniversary-edition#commentsdarren rovellkentuckymarshall hendersonmurder was the case that they gave methis week in the twitterversetwitter creeper of the year of the weekwedded blissThu, 27 Jun 2013 13:57:16 +0000BiSB79506 at http://mgoblog.comThis Week in the Twitterversehttp://mgoblog.com/content/week-twitterverse-14
<h4>
<font>Pork and Beef</font></h4>
<p>This week, possibly in response to Mitch McGary&rsquo;s fabulous work on Instagram, the football team pretty much decided to made the un-moving pictures their donkey. And per Brian&rsquo;s instructions, we begin once again with Dr. Hamlet III:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Hamlet.png"><img alt="Hamlet" border="0" height="539" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Hamlet_thumb.png" title="Hamlet" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>And since I&rsquo;ve been making an effort to be more informative and less snarky, this presents an opportunity to analyze the&hellip;</p>
<p>THINGS WE LEARNED:</p>
<ul>
<li>
These linemen have a much more forgiving landlord than I had in Ann Arbor. They can have a pig. I couldn&#39;t have a fish.</li>
<li>
It&#39;s really easy to get into Michigan&#39;s Med School if you&#39;re a legacy, and even easier if you&#39;re a second-generation legacy.</li>
<li>
P1G, like the B1G, seems to have the most success with small bowls.</li>
<li>
If Lewan had ONE more season in Ann Arbor, I&#39;m pretty sure we&#39;d see this at some point next offseason:</li>
</ul>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/WeBoughtAPig.png"><img alt="WeBoughtAPig" border="0" height="529" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/WeBoughtAPig_thumb.png" title="WeBoughtAPig" width="354" /></a></p>
<p>Before that, though, several members of the offense took last week&rsquo;s ManBearCrombie to the next level, and presented us with an overload of OMG Shirtless:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/OMG%20Shirtless.png"><img alt="OMG Shirtless" border="0" height="381" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/OMG%20Shirtless_thumb.png" title="OMG Shirtless" width="404" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><em>NOT PICTURED: weakness of any kind</em></p>
<p>THINGS WE LEARNED:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Adidas apparently makes all of Michigan&#39;s workout apparel, too, and like the rest of the Adidas stuff it all fell apart and left the athletes shirtless. New shirts will probably be delivered by early December.</li>
<li>
Michigan&#39;s football team, despite their shoes, can receive no service. They can&#39;t figure out why.</li>
<li>
If you want, you can play tic-tac-toe on Taylor Lewan&#39;s shoulder (PROTIP: The only winning move is not to play).</li>
<li>
Sione Houma may or may not be Tongan <a href="http://spawnofmzone.blogspot.com/2009/02/steve-breaston-afro-king.html">Steve Breaston</a>.</li>
<li>
Fitz Toussaint once killed a velociraptor.</li>
<li>
Michigan&#39;s offense is composed of very large men. And Jeremy Gallon.</li>
</ul>
<h4>
<font>Your parody account is bad and you should feel bad</font></h4>
<p>Most of you have probably heard of a young man from Grand Rapids named Drake Harris. Mr. Harris said a while back that he would spend a few years at Michigan State playing kicky-throwy ball AND dribbly-shooty ball, but then he changed his mind about the dribbly-shooty part and decided to play his kicky-throwy ball at Michigan. This did not go over well in East Lansing, and elicited a pile of the usual Twitter crap. But that was six weeks ago, so the iron has cooled considerably.</p>
<p>But don&rsquo;t tell that to the creator of what is almost certainly the worst parody account in the history of mimicry:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo4.png"><img alt="DrakeHarrisEgo4" border="0" height="240" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo4_thumb.png" title="DrakeHarrisEgo4" width="454" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo1.png"><img alt="DrakeHarrisEgo1" border="0" height="205" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo1_thumb.png" title="DrakeHarrisEgo1" width="454" /></a></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo2.png"><img alt="DrakeHarrisEgo2" border="0" height="235" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo2_thumb.png" title="DrakeHarrisEgo2" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>Yep, it&rsquo;s an account dedicated to Drake Harris&rsquo;s Ego, which Sparty* believes to be a thing. Setting aside the fact that this guy created an account mocking a kid, this is just a terrible account. First, I don&rsquo;t think he knows what &ldquo;ego&rdquo; means. But more importantly, he failed to meet the first (and really the only) rule of parody accounts: <em>they are supposed to be funny</em>.&nbsp; I mean, objectively speaking, who is going to find that funny?</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo3.png"><img alt="DrakeHarrisEgo3" border="0" height="368" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DrakeHarrisEgo3_thumb.png" title="DrakeHarrisEgo3" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>Oh, hey there one time Michigan State commit and current UCLA Bruin offensive lineman Caleb Benenoch. To summarize: a guy who decommitted from State loves that there is an account dedicated to the ego demonstrated by a guy who decommitted from State. I can&rsquo;t even begin to unwrap the Spartyness of this tweet. It&rsquo;s like a mobius strip of Spartyfreude; it just folds back into itself until you don&rsquo;t know where you started but god this thing is nifty.</p>
<p><em>*And yes, this was the doing of Sparty. A confirmed State fan created the account, and then allegedly turned over control to someone else. I won&rsquo;t out the creator, but mostly because I don&rsquo;t feel like chasing down the details because I don&rsquo;t much care.</em></p>
<h4>
<strong>Speaking of things about which you should feel bad</strong></h4>
<p>In related Drake Harris news, he continues to catch crap on Twitter for choosing a college, including a concerted effort from one guy in particular who doesn&rsquo;t seem to understand the concept of &ldquo;boundaries.&rdquo; Harris finally called him on it:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Drake%20Harris%20Old%20Dude.png"><img alt="Drake Harris Old Dude" border="0" height="458" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Drake%20Harris%20Old%20Dude_thumb.png" title="Drake Harris Old Dude" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>Sure enough, I looked through Doug E. Fresh&rsquo;s Tweets, and an uncomfortable percentage of them are to Drake Harris. Add in the alleged Facebook stalking, and we&rsquo;ve got ourselves a Stage 5 Clinger. And then there&rsquo;s the text of the message itself, in which this guy blames Harris for all of the hate he&rsquo;s receiving because he&rsquo;s &ldquo;living with the consequences&rdquo; of his decisions. It&rsquo;s your classic &ldquo;he was asking for it&rdquo; defense, except here the &ldquo;asking for it&rdquo; was in the form of &ldquo;selected an institution of higher education.&rdquo;</p>
<p>This should serve as a reminder to the scores of you who still contact recruits through social media that it is a terrible, terrible idea, and not just because of the creepiness factor. They might see your comments, call you out, and make you look like a maroon in front of the whole internet. This guy is a real estate agent who uses his name and business information in his Twitter profile. And I will remind you that Michigan fans buy houses in west Michigan, as do people who don&rsquo;t like being creeped the hell out by awkward people. So, congratulations, Mr. Ditmar, I dub thee <strong>TWITTER CREEPER OF THE YEAR OF THE WEEK</strong>.**</p>
<p><em>**This name probably won&rsquo;t stick. Also this probably won&rsquo;t be a regular thing.</em></p>
<p><u><em>[ED:BiSB - The purpose of this section was not to encourage people to seek retribution. People should not attempt to contact or further escalate the situation. Let the Universe unfold of its own accord.] </em></u></p>
<h4>
<font>[/Insert words here]</font></h4>
<p>I don&rsquo;t want to talk about this. But I think you have to see it, so&hellip; here it is. Warning: it&rsquo;s slightly Not Safe For Breakfast.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Vrabel.png"><img alt="Vrabel" border="0" height="379" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Vrabel_thumb.png" title="Vrabel" width="454" /></a></p>
<p align="center">(H/T <a href="http://www.twitter.com/LandGrant33">@LandGrant33</a>, and by H/T I mean Y U HATE MY EYES?)</p>
<p align="left">Bucknuts. That is all.</p>
<h4>
<font>Car washings is serious business</font></h4>
<p>NCAA rules are dumb. But until now, we didn&rsquo;t know just how dumb:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/NCAA%20Violations.png"><img alt="NCAA Violations" border="0" height="300" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/NCAA%20Violations_thumb.png" title="NCAA Violations" width="454" /></a></p>
<p>Yup, a University had to report a secondary violation because an athlete washed her car <u>with University water</u>. According to Lost Lettermen, the full story is about <a href="http://www.lostlettermen.com/car-wash-can-lead-to-ncaa-violation/">as dumb as you would expect</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A WCC school self-reported an extra benefits violation to the NCAA when university officials caught one of their women&rsquo;s golfers washing her car on campus, according to the source. The NCAA ruled a secondary violation had occurred because the water was not available to regular students and demanded the golfer pay back $20, which was deemed to be the value of the water and use of the hose.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It was a violation because the USE OF A HOSE WAS AN IMPERMISSIBLE BENEFIT. And she had to PAY $20 because the hose wasn&rsquo;t available to the general student body. In other words, this thing that is generally unavailable to the general student body is fine:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Ross%20Academic%20Center_2.jpg"><img alt="Ross Academic Center" border="0" height="304" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Ross%20Academic%20Center_thumb.jpg" title="Ross Academic Center" width="404" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><em>Ross Academic Center</em></p>
<p align="left">And this will lead us slouching to SMU:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Water%20Hose.jpg"><img alt="Water Hose" border="0" height="282" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Water%20Hose_thumb.jpg" title="Water Hose" width="404" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><em>Hose</em></p>
<p align="left">Once again, fine:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Pryor%20Corvette_2.jpg"><img alt="Pryor Corvette" border="0" height="322" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Pryor%20Corvette_thumb.jpg" title="Pryor Corvette" width="404" /></a></p>
<p align="left">Suspect:</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Pryor%20Bucket.png"><img alt="Pryor Bucket" border="0" height="324" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Pryor%20Bucket_thumb.png" title="Pryor Bucket" width="404" /></a></p>
<p align="left">Save us Obi-Wan KenO&rsquo;Bannon. You&rsquo;re our only hope.</p>
<p align="left">(NOTE: the second violation, while less funny, is probably worse. How can someone make some kind of impermissible contact with a recruit when he <u>doesn&rsquo;t&nbsp; know who he is talking to</u>? We lawyer types call that &ldquo;mens rea.&rdquo; Everyone else calls it &ldquo;holy itchy Gold Bond balls, use some common sense you ridiculous tools&rdquo;)</p>
<h4>
<font>Ohio: Worst State Ever, but improving?</font></h4>
<p>The University of Cincinnati baseball team had a rough year, finishing just 6-18 in Big East play, which is probably because baseball isn&#39;t any of the players&#39; first loves. They were born to be swimmers:</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><img rel="lightbox" src="http://i.imgur.com/hrDq2wF.gif" /></p>
<p>medieval jousters;</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><img rel="lightbox" src="http://i.imgur.com/RhbieyK.gif" /></p>
<p>or <a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/05/cincinnati-bearcats-postgame-interview-gifs/">explorers, Roman emperors, big game hunters, or&hellip; well, swimmers again</a>. These gentlemen will be going professional in something other than sports. Unless that swimming thing works out, in which case that&#39;d be sports.</p>
<h4>
<font>Rock Bottom Update </font></h4>
<p>Look, Amanda, you seem like a nice girl and all, <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/28/4260295/vagina-monologues-nyc-cops-say.html">certain amazing but somewhat NSFW headlines</a> notwithstanding. But this is about the point in your life when you are going to want to reconsider some stuff.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Marshall%20Henderson.png"><img alt="Marshall Henderson" border="0" height="304" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Marshall%20Henderson_thumb.png" title="Marshall Henderson" width="454" /></a></p>
<a name="more"></a>http://mgoblog.com/content/week-twitterverse-14#commentscar washesdr. hamlet iiidrake harrismarshall hendersonmike vrabel's itchy bucknutsomg shirtlessthis week in the twitterverseTwitter is serious biznessThu, 30 May 2013 15:33:46 +0000BiSB78950 at http://mgoblog.comThis Week in the Twitterversehttp://mgoblog.com/content/week-twitterverse-6
<h4>
<strong>Seems Legit</strong></h4>
<p>I&rsquo;m sure by now you have all seen Brian&rsquo;s startling admission from this weekend:</p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Brian%20hearts%20Gordon.png"><img alt="Brian hearts Gordon" border="0" height="194" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Brian%20hearts%20Gordon_thumb.png" title="Brian hearts Gordon" width="404" /></a></p>
<p>I know, right? But it gets even more disconcerting:</p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Ace%20hearts%20Nickelback.png"><img alt="Ace hearts Nickelback" border="0" height="172" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Ace%20hearts%20Nickelback_thumb.png" title="Ace hearts Nickelback" width="404" /></a></p>
<p>Welcome to the world of <a href="http://lemmetweetthatforyou.com/">Lemme Tweet That For You</a>, a site that allows anyone to spoof a tweet from the the Twitter user of his choice. And as you can tell, it looks pretty convincing. Apparently the site has been <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/lemme-tweet-that-for-you_n_2935403.html">around for about a year</a>, but has recently been rediscovered and has become a thing. It can&rsquo;t send tweets to a user&rsquo;s followers (in other words, I can&rsquo;t make Heiko&rsquo;s love of Twilight appear to his followers as if it came from him), but this could still cause plenty of problems for athletes. You can envision someone saying, &ldquo;hey, check out this screenshot of this since-deleted tweet.&quot; And since people often delete their stupid tweets, it might seem plausible.</p>
<p>Or, for more advanced trolling, you can envision some fan saying to a particularly volatile college athlete, &ldquo;hey, did you see what this dude tweeted about you?&rdquo; The athlete then responds in kind, and before long the two are going at it, with each thinking the other started it. It&rsquo;s basically the plot of The Sum of All Fears (the Tom Clancy novel, not the Ben Affleck movie that is okay as a standalone but completely ignores the entire Jack Ryan back-story).</p>
<p>Now all we need is a particularly volatile college athlete&hellip;</p>
<h4>
<strong>O HAI Marshall Henderson </strong></h4>
<p>I&rsquo;m sure by now you&rsquo;re all familiar with Marshall Henderson. He&rsquo;s the Ole Miss junior who combines the shooting conscience of Allen Iverson, the people skills of Genghis Khan, and the personal aesthetic of Joe Dirt. He started out the NCAA tournament with a statement of questionable taste.</p>
<p><strong>[after the jump]</strong></p>
<a name="more"></a><!--break--><!--break--><p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Henderson%20Bruesewitz.png"><img alt="Henderson Bruesewitz" border="0" height="257" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Henderson%20Bruesewitz_thumb.png" title="Henderson Bruesewitz" width="404" /></a></p>
<p>That&rsquo;s what you call a &ldquo;red flag&rdquo; when it comes to character analysis. Mike Bruesewitz. Swag. The mind tries to combine these words in some sort of Kevin Bacon-esque six degrees of linguistic separation, but no reasonable bridge can be made between these words.</p>
<p>But then things took a turn for the less cordial, when Kentucky sophomore Ryan Harrow took to Twitter to taunt Henderson. Henderson replied in kind:</p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Henderson Harrow_2.png"><img alt="Henderson Harrow" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Henderson Harrow_thumb.png" title="Henderson Harrow" /></a></p>
<p>Two problems. One, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/03/22/marshall-henderson-ncaa-tournament-ryan-harrow-fake-twitter-war/2011615/">that&rsquo;s not actually Ryan Harrow</a>. That&rsquo;s just a random dude pretending to be Ryan Harrow. And two, that&rsquo;s just a terrible idea. It lacks a certain classiness, and while he may or may not have intended it, telling a black guy to get to the &ldquo;back of the bus&rdquo; is&hellip; dicey? Yeah, let&rsquo;s go with dicey. But hey, why wouldn&rsquo;t we give this kid the benefit of the doubt?</p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lcjVQC0hDaU" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>Oh. I see.&nbsp;</p>
<h4>
<strong>The Fort has been Breached. TO THE TREBUCHETS!!!</strong></h4>
<p>Spring practice has been going on for a little while now, but as most of you know, spring practice under Brady Hoke consists of 2-minute long practices in which guys hit blocking dummies for one minute, run one inside trap, complete two quick hitches, and some talk about preparation and teamwork.* On Tuesday, though, an interloper invaded Fort Schembechler and returned with fantastic tales of people doing things.</p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DiNardo_1.png"><img alt="DiNardo_1" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DiNardo_1_thumb.png" title="DiNardo_1" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DiNardo_2.png"><img alt="DiNardo_2" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DiNardo_2_thumb.png" title="DiNardo_2" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DiNardo_3.png"><img alt="DiNardo_3" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/DiNardo_3_thumb.png" title="DiNardo_3" /></a></p>
<p>This is obviously encouraging on several fronts. First and foremost, it proves that Ross Douglas and Taco Charlton do exist, and are currently doing football things. It obviously bumps the Taco hype from &quot;medium&quot; to &quot;spicy habanero.&quot;** It bumps the Kalis hype from [error: parameters exceeded]. It also matches most of the Brady Hoke Buzzword List: &quot;offensive and defensive lines,&quot; &quot;tough,&quot; &quot;physical,&quot; &quot;smashing,&quot; and &quot;competition&quot; all made an appearance. We were missing &quot;hearing football&quot; and &quot;tremendous,&quot; but that&#39;s what spring ball is for: finding weaknesses and addressing them. You&#39;ll get there, Gerry.</p>
<p>It&#39;s also really hard not to like how positive DiNardo is overall. He isn&#39;t a &#39;blow sunshine up everyone&#39;s tight end&#39; kind of guy; last year he pretty much said during the BTN&#39;s fall camp tour that Michigan wasn&#39;t a Top-10 team... and they weren&#39;t. Having a reasonably non-insane analyst give credence to the theory that to a team is turning the corner is nice, especially when that&#39;s the only thing anyone is saying.</p>
<p>The downside, though, and it is the inevitable ridiculous extrapolation. If DiNardo thinks Douglas and Charlton were the most impressive, then what&#39;s wrong with Dymonte Thomas and Kyle Bosch? There was no mention of Devin Gardner, so IS HE STILL THERE AND ALIVE AND IS HIS ARM STILL ATTACHED? Is &quot;Michigan could have the two best offensive tackles in B1G&quot; a polite way of saying that the interior line is a pile of grass clippings and copies of the Life section of USA Today?</p>
<p>September: perpetually too damn far away.</p>
<p><em>*&nbsp; SOURCE: Every MGoBlue practice video ever.</em></p>
<p><em>** Seriously, the Taco wordplay is going to be so much fun you guys</em></p>
<h4>
<strong>Gentlemen, You Can&#39;t Fight in Here</strong></h4>
<p>This week Brian tweeted his displeasure at the extent of the &ldquo;we fought the good fight&rdquo; coverage of the hockey team&rsquo;s CCHA run at the end of a disappointing season. Children of Yost did not take kindly to this, and it was, as they say, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-_Ql0fN0bA">so on</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/YostFight_1.png"><img alt="YostFight_1" border="0" height="307" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/YostFight_1_thumb.png" title="YostFight_1" width="404" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/YostFight_2.png"><img alt="YostFight_2" border="0" height="242" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/YostFight_2_thumb.png" title="YostFight_2" width="404" /></a></p>
<p>Obviously this is a serious series of accusations leveled by CoY. We should address these individually for a full adjudication on the merits:</p>
<p><strong>CHARGE</strong>: Brian forcequit on hockey coverage midseason.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; For the prosecution:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For the defense:</p>
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Brian DID forcequit on hockey coverage. He <a href="http://mgoblog.com/content/aint-getting-bus-tonight">authored a piece</a> to that effect in January. Moreover, he pledged that he was &quot;not writing another word about this hockey team.&quot; And then he did. So he&#39;s a dirty, dirty liar.</td>
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Dude, did you SEE this team for the first 70% of the year? It was unwatchable. What was he supposed to write? &quot;Yep, once again Michigan didn&#39;t appear to give two craps, and once again they got housed.&quot; As a former mod of the MGoBoard, I can attest that some topics just can&#39;t be discussed without jabbing Godwin in the groin with a hot poker.</td>
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<p><strong>VERDICT</strong>: Guilty, but sentenced to time already served. Brian had to watch every home game of this season, which is punishment enough. Like my mother always told me, if you can&#39;t say something nice, stop talking before you start questioning the stances of a bunch of 18- to 22-year-olds vis-a-vis regicide and dolphin-punching.</p>
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<p><strong>CHARGE</strong>: Brian took to Twitter to complain rather than to compose his thoughts on MGoBlog.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For the prosecution:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For the defense:</p>
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Brian has a widely-read and rather popular internet-based weblog thingy, yet he chose to Twitter-bait Michigan hockey fans.</td>
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Brian DID share his feelings on his blog (violating his pledge to not write about hockey, and making him a dirty, dirty liar). Just because I own a cornballer doesn&rsquo;t mean I can&rsquo;t make myself some hot ham water too, right? And just because Brian has one platform doesn&rsquo;t mean he can&rsquo;t use others.</td>
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<p><strong>VERDICT: Not Guilty</strong>. Rage-baiting is what the internets are for, forum be damned</p>
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<p><strong>CHARGE</strong>: Brian threw a water bottle at a guy at a football game.</p>
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He, uh, <a href="http://mgoblog.com/content/fort-sumter">did</a>.</td>
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Tell me you didn&#39;t throw things after the Toledo game. Besides, he missed, so no harm no foul, right?</td>
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<p><strong>VERDICT: Guilty</strong>. HE MISSED. Brian spends his life covering football. He has access to a greater wealth of football knowledge than most of us could hope to dream. He missed a middle-aged dude with a water bottle from TWO ROWS AWAY. Two rows at Michigan Stadium is, what, five feet? From a stationary target who was already distracted? Sentenced to attend the <a href="http://mgoblog.com/diaries/2013-recruiting-profiles-you">Michigan Men&#39;s Football Experience</a> and train with the QBs.</p>
<p>As for the substance of the debate... I don&#39;t know if there really IS a debate. It seems like everyone agrees that (a) most of the season sucked, (b) CCHA run and general un-suckiness of the last month-plus were encouraging for the future, and (c) the death of The Streak meant that the objective goals of the season weren&#39;t met. I mean, we&#39;re really down to a debate over whether the season was a &quot;failure&quot; or a &quot;disappointment.&quot; MY NEAR-SYNONYMOUS ADJECTIVE IS MORE APT THAN YOURS. LOUD NOISES!</p>
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<strong>You Know What Time It Is</strong></h4>
<p><a href="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Canseco%20Higgs.png"><img alt="Canseco Higgs" border="0" height="266" rel="lightbox" src="http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/Canseco%20Higgs_thumb.png" title="Canseco Higgs" width="404" /></a></p>
<p>I don&rsquo;t know if I should sleep better or fear for the Universe. I&rsquo;mma go with &ldquo;probably.&rdquo;</p>
http://mgoblog.com/content/week-twitterverse-6#commentsfake things that mgoblog likesfort schembechlergerry dinardojose cansecomarshall hendersonmike bruesewitz has swagthis week in the twitterverseThu, 28 Mar 2013 13:30:33 +0000BiSB77250 at http://mgoblog.com